Examination of Charles Brenan

Citation: TCD, 1641 Depositions Project, online transcript January 1970
[http://1641.tcd.ie/deposition.php?depID?=812315r255] accessed Monday 25th of September 2017 12:16 PM

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Date: 1652-09-04
Identifier: 812315r255

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1641 Deposition Item Type Metadata

County: Carlow & Killkenny
Deposition Type: Commonwealth
Nature of Deposition: Multiple Killing, Robbery
Commissioners: Daniel Axtel, Edmond Redmond
Deposition Transcription:


fol. 315r



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The Examination of Charles Brenan of Rathcally aged about 22 yeares or thereabouts being duely Examined the 4th of September 1652.
The said Examinante being duely examined saith that he liued in the begining of the Rebellion with his vncle Thomas <A> Butler at Sraghboe in the Countie of Carloe and that the first time he tooke vp armes was at Lyncies Knock and that he was Corporall in Collonell Bagnolls troope and that after the defeat of Lyncies Knock he by order of the Supreame Councell was made Lieutenant to Captain John Brenan who had a foot company and further saith that he was not at the siege of Castlecommer neither was he at the storming of the Church nor knowes not by whose order the English there, were murthered and plundered and further saith not
Charles [mark] Brenan
his marke
Taken before vs the day
aboue written
D Axtell
[Edm: Redmond]

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Deponent Fullname: Charles Brenan
Deponent Gender: Male
Deponent County of Residence: Carlow
Mentioned Non-Deponent Fullnames: Thomas Butler, * Bagnoll, John Brenan
Mentioned Non-Deponent Roles: Mentioned, Confederate, Confederate